Sessions Proclaims ‘We Love This Job,’ Has No Plans To Step Down

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday that he has no plans to step aside even though President Donald Trump has made public his differences with him over the attorney general’s recusal from the investigation into Russian connections to the Trump campaign.

“I have the honor of serving as attorney general. It’s something that goes beyond any thought I would have ever had for myself,” he said during a press event held to communicate the results of an international cybercrime investigation.

“We love this job. We love this department. And I plan to continue to do so as long as that is appropriate,” he said.

“Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job, and I would have picked somebody else,” Trump said, adding that the recusal was “very unfair to the president” because it placed the Russia investigation in the hands of someone Trump did not know.

“We had all the major law enforcement leaders in my office yesterday to talk about our unified efforts to improve our crime fighting with state and local officials so I’m totally confident that we can continue to run this office in an effective way,” Sessions said.